Innovative Image Enhancement Solution for Face Detection and
Tracking Provides Superior Image Quality and Camera Performance
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA), a provider of
transformational technologies that enable innovation in
next-generation electronics, today announced that Fujitsu
Microelectronics Limited's Milbeaut chipsets, which incorporate the
FotoNation(R) FaceTracker image enhancement solution from Tessera, are
now shipping.
The FotoNation FaceTracker solution identifies and tracks in
real-time more than 10 human faces simultaneously. It provides
in-camera face detection and tracking for digital still cameras
(DSCs), mobile phone cameras and other camera-enabled devices. With
this technology, Fujitsu Microelectronics' latest chipset will enable
digital camera and mobile phone manufacturers to provide smaller,
lighter, slimmer devices featuring high-resolution imaging. The
Milbeaut chipsets incorporate hardware acceleration for the FotoNation
FaceTracker solution, enabling approximately 10 times (10x) improved
speed performance over the software-only implementation.
"By incorporating the FotoNation technology from Tessera into our
Milbeaut chipset, we are able to offer our customers additional
capabilities to optimize camera exposure, focus and color balance
settings," said Tom Miyake, general manager of the Imaging System
Solution Division of Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited. "It will enable
consumers to take better quality pictures with their mobile phones and
digital cameras with little or no extra effort."
The FotoNation FaceTracker solution tracks faces in the camera
viewfinder, detecting more than 10 faces in one image in as little as
0.1 seconds. It continues to track them moving throughout the image,
even in rotation or profile. The camera uses this "face data" to
adjust image capture settings such as exposure and focus, which
results in human subjects that are well-lit and well-focused, even
when backlit or off-center. The technology also includes face
orientation data as a simple solution for auto-rotation without
additional hardware.
"As a 'one stop shop' provider of transformational imaging
technologies, Tessera enables our customers to offer advanced features
to the market, whether it is in the form of cell phone cameras or
DSCs," said Mike Bereziuk, executive vice president, Imaging & Optics,
Tessera. "We see great potential market growth fueled by leading image
processing chipset manufacturers such as Fujitsu Microelectronics
Limited, as well as new opportunities in the wireless, consumer and
computing product sectors."
The FotoNation FaceTracker solution is currently available for
licensing from Tessera. For more information, please go to
www.tessera.com.
About FotoNation Technology
The FotoNation family of technologies from Tessera provides a full
portfolio of image enhancement solutions for digital cameras, cell
phones and other camera-enabled devices. The FotoNation Red technology
automatically detects and removes red- and golden-eye defects. The
FotoNation FaceTracker technology detects the presence of human faces
to ensure optimal focus, exposure and color balance of digital images.
The FotoNation SmileCheck technology enables photographs of people to
be automatically captured when all faces are smiling.
About Tessera
Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA) provides industry-leading
manufacturers with transformational technologies that enable
next-generation electronics, optics and imaging solutions. The company
licenses its innovations, as well as delivers products based on these
innovations to promote the development of the supply chain
infrastructure, enabling manufacturers to get the right product to
market, at the right time. Tessera is headquartered in San Jose,
California. For information call 1.408.894.0700 or go to
www.tessera.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements, which are
made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
significantly from those projected. Material factors that may cause
results to differ from the statements made include delays, setbacks or
losses relating to our intellectual property or intellectual property
litigations, or any invalidation or limitation of our key patents;
fluctuations in our operating results due to the timing of new license
agreements and royalties, or due to legal costs; changes in patent
laws, regulation or enforcement, or other factors that might affect
our ability to protect our intellectual property; the risk of a
decline in demand for semiconductor products; failure by the industry
to adopt our technologies; competing technologies; the future
expiration of our patents; the future expiration of our license
agreements and the cessation of related royalty income; the failure or
refusal of licensees to pay royalties; failure to achieve the growth
prospects and synergies expected from acquisition transactions; and
delays and challenges associated with integrating acquired companies
with our existing businesses. You are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the
date of this release. Tessera's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2007 and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended June 30, 2008, include more information about
factors that could affect the company's financial results.
Tessera, the Tessera logo and FotoNation are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Tessera Inc. or its affiliated companies in
the United States and other countries. All other company, brand and
product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
Tessera
Judy Erkanat, +1-408-952-4414
jerkanat@tessera.com
or
JHG Townsend for Tessera
Liya Sharif or Lori Scribner, +1-858-457-4888
Tessera_Team@jhg.com
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